Titlebook: Capital, Systems, and Objects; The Foundation and F Richard Thomas Watson Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under

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Orientierung ist Beziehungssetzung im RaumNatural capital is the earth’s endowment. Some of this bounty is finite, such as the different types of minerals, and some renewable, such as forests. Renewable resources are all powered directly or indirectly by solar energy, and they are a valuable annuity for all life on earth.

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Thrombotische Mikroangiopathien (TMA)The measurement of performance is an essential feature of capital creation because management of a capital creation process requires knowing what was produced, the quality and value of the product, and what resources were consumed in the process.

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Thrombotische Mikroangiopathien (TMA)Systems are the engines of capital creation, and every organization should be very aware of the state of its critical systems. The emphasis in the prior chapter was on measuring outcomes, the capital created, and in this chapter attention is paid to assessing the processes that generate capital.

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The Growth of the Capital Creation SystemAgriculture society was a catalyst for capital creation. Society became more structured because a degree of continuing leadership and organization is required for farming. Farmers were entrepreneurs.

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Energy for Capital CreationCapital creation is dependent on energy. Thus, civilization has long sought to find ways of increasing energy efficiency in order to raise capital productivity. E? is a critical input to the quality of human life.

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The FutureForecasts of the future are often wildly wrong, so this chapter is short to avoid making too many errors.

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Human CapitalHuman capital is the general health, skills, knowledge, and abilities of the population, a workforce, or an individual. “A country’s ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise output per worker,” according to Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman.